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They're freak accidents. We wouldn't tolerate deaths day in and day out to the tune of 40,200 in the US in 2016.

..too lazy to find and paste stat from mobile



You said we won't accept those deaths "even in the single digit", not 40k+ deaths, which is a few orders of magnitude higher.

Also I don't understand why we would accept freak accidents but not other accidents? An accdient is an accident. A death is tragic regardless what caused it.


We don't accept the robot deaths. Any time one happens people scramble to "make sure this never happens again". When someone dies in a car accident, we yawn.




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